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Stepping-stones for the unemployed: The effect of temporary jobs on the duration until regular work
Individual labour market transitions from unemployment into temporary work are o...
- 2004:18 Employment subsidies - A fast lane from unemployment to work?
The treatment effect of a Swedish employment subs...
- 2004:17 The knowledge lift: The Swedish adult education program that aimed to eliminate low worker skill levels
The Swedish adult education program called Knowledge Lift is unprecedented...
- 2004:16 Shifting attitudes and the labor market of minorities: Swedish experiences after 9-11
Dan-Olof Rooth Olof ÅslundSeveral studies suggest that the terrorist attacks in the US on September 11, 2001, caused at least a temporary change of attitude toward certain minorities in Sweden. We study unemployment exit...
- 2004:15 The effects of wage compression on training: Swedish empirical evidence
Thomas EricsonThis paper investigates the relation between workers’ on-the-job training activities and the degree of wage compression in their occupation. With respect to general training – as opposed to firm...
- 2004:14 Scarring effects of the first labour market experience: A sibling based analysis
Oskar Nordström SkansThe paper studies the relationship between teenagers’ first labour market experience and subsequent labour market performance using data on all Swedish youths graduating from vocational high sch...
- 2004:13 Human capital is the key to the IT productivity paradox
Unlike previous analyses, we consider (i) possible externalities in the use of IT and ii) IT and human capital interactions. Examining, hypothetically, the statistical consequences of ...
- 2004:12 Survey non-response and unemployment duration
Social surveys are often used to estimate unemployment duration distributions. Survey non-response may then cause a bias. We study this using a unique dataset that combines survey info...
- 2004:11 Public employment and the double role of bureaucrats
Matz Dahlberg Eva MörkBureaucrats in the government sector have a double role since they are both suppliers and demanders of public employment; they are publicly employed (supply labor) and th...
- 2004:10 Moral hazard and sickness insurance: Empirical evidence from a sickness insurance reform in Sweden
Per Johansson Mårten PalmeWe use a reform of Sweden’s sickness insurance system as a source - 2004:18 Employment subsidies - A fast lane from unemployment to work?